About the Author

Maria J. Falco is Professor Emerita of Political Science at DePauw University. She is the author of Truth and Meaning in Political Science: An Introduction to Political Inquiry (1973) and "Bigotry!": Ethnic, Machine and Sexual Politics in a Senatorial Election (1980) and the editor of Through the Looking-Glass: Epistemology and the Conduct of Political Inquiry: An Anthology (1979) and Feminism and Epistemology (1987).